Francis Ford Coppola is responsible for bringing some of the most celebrated movies in American history to the big screen, including The Godfather trilogy.
The iconic director is back to work with a new blockbuster that is coming soon to a theater near you.
And The Godfather is re-platforming these big-name celebrity victims of cancel culture.
Francis Ford Coppola is about to be back on the big screen
Francis Ford Coppola is a treasure in the world of filmmaking.
He directed two of the best movies in cinematography history with The Godfather I and II.
He also directed the much-maligned Godfather III, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Jack, and The Rainmaker.
However, Coppola hasn’t enjoyed a hit in nearly three decades.
But that could be about to change with a project that’s been close to his heart since 1980.
Megalopolis is set to debut in theaters on September 27 of this year.
The long history of Megalopolis
According to IMDB, Coppola began writing Megalopolis all the way back in the early 1980s.
However, the director’s financial troubles kept the world-building motion picture from coming to fruition.
Coppola was able to launch production in 2001.
IMDB even reported that 30 hours of secondary filming had begun and there was even a table read with the stars, including Paul Newman, Uma Thurman, Robert De Niro, James Gandolfini, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Edie Falco, and Kevin Spacey.
But the 9/11 terrorist attacks foiled those plans.
It turns out there was an almost identical tragedy happening in the script.
But now audiences are just weeks away from setting their eyes on the master director’s vision.
Megalopolis is a Romeo & Juliet-type story where a corrupt Mayor stands in the way of an artist’s goals of utopia and the young woman who stands between them.
Coppola is so invested in the project that he’s taking a brave step to avoid the mistakes in other recent films.
Audiences are tired of Hollywood’s woke lectures
Hollywood is experiencing flop-after-flop thanks to its insistence on inserting woke propaganda into movies.
Madam Web and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire were supposed to be big hits.
But they both bombed.
Rachel Zegler’s woke marketing of Disney’s Snow White remake has pushed it back by a year as the company runs damage control.
Meanwhile, Zegler also did her best to bring down the Hunger Games franchise with her Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes prequel.
Zegler’s film brought in only about half the revenue at the box office compared to the least grossing of the original Hunger Games movies.
The Star Wars, Marvel, and Indiana Jones franchises have all struggled in recent years due to leftists destroying stories with Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion.
With all that in mind and so many years poured into Megalopolis, Coppola didn’t want half the country to turn off his movie before it even landed in cinemas, especially since Breitbart News reported that the director has invested $100 million of his own money to get the project off the ground.
Francis Ford Coppola gives the canceled a second chance
Megalopolis features three talented actors who have been recent victims of the cancel culture outrage mob victims.
“What I didn’t want to happen is that we’re deemed some woke Hollywood production that’s simply lecturing viewers,” Coppola said in an interview with Rolling Stone. “The cast features people who were canceled at one point or another. There were people who are archconservatives and others who are extremely politically progressive. But we were all working on one film together. That was interesting, I thought.”
To his point, Megalopolis brings together conservatives like Jon Voight and leftists like Dustin Hoffman and Shia LaBeouf.
What the three have in common, as the Oscar-winning director referenced, is that they’ve all been canceled by self-proclaimed “social justice warriors.”
Voight is a conservative and an outspoken Donald Trump supporter.
Meanwhile, Hoffman and LaBeouf were targets of the #MeToo movement.
According to Breitbart, Hoffman’s cancellation came from “one unfounded allegation of misconduct some 40 years ago.”
Similarly, Breitbart also reported that LaBeouf was blacklisted after abuse allegations that had no evidence.
And LaBeouf also had the added offense of finding Christianity.
Joining Voight, Hoffman, and LaBeouf in the cast are Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Laurence Fishburne, Jason Schwartzman, and Coppola’s sister, Talia Shire.
Once again, the movie will be in theaters on September 27.
Patriot Political will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.
